In 2011, senior executives at JPMorgan Chase & Co told one of the bank’s trading and hedging groups to scale back its riskier positions as new regulations would make these bets much more expensive to maintain. …

The stars are aligning for U.S. dollar bulls. For more than a decade, good times in such markets as stocks and real estate were bad news for the greenback. Investors tended to use the U.S. dollar only …

But on the other, elections in Israel – as tense as they are – tend to last just three months. In America, they go on for a dizzying three years. In between elections in Israel, there tends to be plenty of political turmoil to write about. Parties …

Diners looking for some beef hotpot on a chilly evening in Beijing pay more per pound than their counterparts in Boston, a discrepancy that shows the challenges China faces in reviving growth as inflation …

WASHINGTON — Three goals will dominate President Barack Obama's coming visit to Israel, his first as president: Convincing Israel and its leadership he means what he says about stopping Iran from building a nuclear weapon, mending a deeply troubled …

A study released last week by the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute argued that increasing the deficit to 3.3% for 2013 could actually be beneficial for long-term growth, though the Bank of Israel has yet to agree. In his campaign, Lapid promised not to …

After years of grabbing the spotlight in U.S.-China economic relations, U.S. concerns over the value of Beijing’s currency appear to be fading, giving ground to newer issues like cyber-security and trade …